"A fascinating analysis of the
philosophical underpinnings and implications of the Bauhaus movement in
architecture ... He shows how the atheism of Bauhaus (or International) Style
assumes the supremacy of the group, and rejects both nature and smaller units,
such as the individual or family. ... This scintillating book is the third in
Jones's trilogy of cultural analyses." The Biblical Booklist.

"Starting with the seminal figure of Walter Gropius, indisputably one of
the luminaries of 20th century architecture, Jones develops an intriguing
argument detailing how the distortion in the soul of one man has had an impact
on the architecture of an entire world. ... The modern tendency to separate the
personal from the professional might lead one to ask what relevance Gropius'
morally disordered life has for modern architecture. ... Jones's central
concern is to demonstrate the relationship between the man and the
architecture; ... The rejections of the traditional family, monogamy, and
fidelity were concomitant with the rejection of the traditional family house.
... The realization that our built environment has been so carefully engineered
by those with ideas so antithetical to our own may come as quite a shock to the
average American Catholic. This is precisely the value of Jones's book. ...
Living Machines is a valuable, approachable and engaging diagnosis showing
where we went wrong." Steven Schloeder, Catholic World Report.

"I am not in total sympathy with this resurgence of Neomod which I find,
at its worst, bone-chilling, like green hair and blue lipstick and suicide
comitted in style. Like E. Michael Jones, I feel it harbors deep nihilism -
hardly the mood for the millennium." Christopher Thomas, Commonweal.

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